Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

December 9th, 2013
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The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and ac...

December 2nd, 2013
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Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against wome...

December 1st, 2013
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After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

November 11th, 2013

This HPOE presentation highlights the business imperative for equity of care.  As the health care...

November 7th, 2013
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Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

November 5th, 2013
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Focusing on strategies to improve quality, address disparities and achieve equity will be essenti...

October 22nd, 2013
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Focusing on strategies to improve quality and achieve health care equity is a growing national pr...

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Patients are becoming empowered. As health care consumers, they are reviewing publicly available ...

September 30th, 2013
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After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

September 17th, 2013
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This article explores how geographic health information systems can be used to improve the health...

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This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

August 20th, 2013
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A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

August 19th, 2013
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Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

July 8th, 2013
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Cultural competency in health care describes the ability of systems to provide care to patients w...

June 18th, 2013
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Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

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Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

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Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

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April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...

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 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

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Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

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The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

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Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...

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The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

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The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

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The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

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To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

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Although it is accepted that cultural competency training is a vital part of reducing health disp...

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A collaborative effort among Harborview Medical Center, two massage schools, the Southeast Seattl...

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The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

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Health plans and provider communities share a need for quality information that promotes cultural...

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

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This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

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 Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...

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This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

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L.A. Care Health Plans developed an innovative video designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing ...

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In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

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In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...

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Interest in cross-cultural communication in health care has increased in recent years as provider...

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Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

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This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

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The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

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According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

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Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

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The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...

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Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...

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The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

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This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

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Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...

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Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

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The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

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The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy developed a curriculum to add...

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The Cancer Legal Resource Center, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola ...

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Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

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n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

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Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

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African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

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Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

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This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

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Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...

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There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

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Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

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In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences...

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Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, no...

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Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

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The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bo...

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As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

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A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

March 6th, 2013
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A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

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Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

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Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

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Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

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Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organ...

January 1st, 2013
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